The Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health was known as the Department of Epidemiology before July 1, 2022.
Submissions from 2020
Loss-of-Function Genomic Variants Highlight Potential Therapeutic Targets for Cardiovascular Disease, Jonas B. Nielsen, Oren Rom, Ida Surakka, Sarah E. Graham, Wei Zhou, Tanmoy Roychowdhury, Lars G. Fritsche, Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun, Carlo Sidore, Yuhao Liu, Maiken E. Gabrielsen, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Brooke Wolford, William Overton, Ying Zhao, Jin Chen, He Zhang, Whitney E. Hornsby, Akua Acheampong, Austen Grooms, Amanda Schaefer, Gregory J. M. Zajac, Luis Villacorta, Jifeng Zhang, Ben Brumpton, Mari Løset, Vivek Rai, Pia R. Lundegaard, Morten S. Olesen, Kent D. Taylor, and Donna K. Arnett
Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy Differs from Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, John L. Robinson, Sílvia Porta, Filip G. Garrett, Panpan Zhang, Sharon X. Xie, EunRan Suh, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Erin L. Abner, Gregory A. Jicha, Justin M. Barber, Virginia M-Y Lee, Edward B. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, and Peter T. Nelson
Brain Structure Changes over Time in Normal and Mildly Impaired Aged Persons, Charles D. Smith, Linda J. Van Eldik, Gregory A. Jicha, Frederick A. Schmitt, Peter T. Nelson, Erin L. Abner, Richard J. Kryscio, Richard R. Murphy, and Anders H. Andersen
Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study Accounting for Gene-Psychosocial Factor Interactions Identifies Novel Loci for Blood Pressure Traits, Daokun Sun, Melissa A. Richard, Soloman K. Musani, Yun Ju Sung, Thomas W. Winkler, Karen Schwander, Jin Fang Chai, Xiuqing Guo, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Dina Vojinovic, Hugues Aschard, Traci M. Bartz, Lawrence F. Bielak, Michael R. Brown, Kumaraswamy Chitrala, Fernando P. Hartwig, Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto, Yongmei Liu, Alisa K. Manning, Raymond Noordam, and Donna K. Arnett
COVID-19 and Opioid Use in Appalachian Kentucky: Challenges and Silver Linings, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Hannah L.F. Cooper, and April M. Young
Genome-Wide Association Study of Smoking Trajectory and Meta-Analysis of Smoking Status in 842,000 Individuals, Ke Xu, Boyang Li, Kathleen A. McGinnis, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Cecilia Dao, Ning Sun, Rachel L. Kember, Hang Zhou, William C. Becker, Joel Gelernter, Henry R. Kranzler, Hongyu Zhao, Amy C. Justice, and VA Million Veteran Program
Submissions from 2019
Tobacco Smoking and Dementia in a Kentucky Cohort: A Competing Risk Analysis, Erin L. Abner, Peter T. Nelson, Gregory A. Jicha, Gregory E. Cooper, David W. Fardo, Frederick A. Schmitt, and Richard J. Kryscio
Collaborative Molecular Epidemiology Study of Metabolic Dysregulation, DNA Methylation, and Breast Cancer Risk Among Nigerian Women: MEND Study Objectives and Design, Tomi Akinyemiju, Omolola Salako, Adetola Daramola, Olusegun Alatise, Adewale Adeniyi, Gabriel Ogun, Omobolaji Ayandipo, Thomas Olajide, Olalekan Olasehinde, Olukayode Arowolo, Adewale Adisa, Oludolapo Afuwape, Aralola Olusanya, Aderemi Adegoke, Akinlolu Ojo, Trygve Tollefsbol, and Donna K. Arnett
Post-Acquisition Processing Confounds in Brain Volumetric Quantification of White Matter Hyperintensities, Ahmed A. Bahrani, Omar M. Al-Janabi, Erin L. Abner, Shoshana H. Bardach, Richard J. Kryscio, Donna M. Wilcock, Charles D. Smith, and Gregory A. Jicha
Fraud Detection Protocol for Web-Based Research Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Development and Descriptive Evaluation, April M. Ballard, Trey Cardwell, and April M. Young
Nutrition and Environmental Pollution Extension Curriculum Improved Diet-Related Behaviors and Environmental Health Literacy, Dawn Brewer, Hannah Bellamy, Anna Hoover, Annie Koempel, and Lisa Gaetke
Pilot study on the efficiency of water-only decontamination for firefighters’ turnout gear, Anthony Calvillo, Erin N. Haynes, Jeff Burkle, Kenny Schroeder, Angelo Calvillo, Julie Reese, and Tiina Reponen
Evaluating Trajectories of Episodic Memory in Normal Cognition and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results from ADNI, Xiuhua Ding, Richard J. Charnigo, Frederick A. Schmitt, Richard J. Kryscio, Erin L. Abner, and Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
An Exome-Wide Sequencing Study of the GOLDN Cohort Reveals Novel Associations of Coding Variants and Fasting Plasma Lipids, Xin Geng, Marguerite R. Irvin, Bertha Hidalgo, Stella Aslibekyan, Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra, Ping An, Alexis C. Frazier-Wood, Hemant K. Tiwari, Tushar Dave, Kathleen Ryan, Jose M. Ordovas, Robert J. Straka, Mary F. Feitosa, Paul N. Hopkins, Ingrid Borecki, Michael A. Province, Braxton D. Mitchell, Donna K. Arnett, and Degui Zhi
Associations Between SLC16A11 Variants and Diabetes in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), Bertha A. Hidalgo, Tamar Sofer, Qibin Qi, Neil Schneiderman, Y. -D. Ida Chen, Robert C. Kaplan, M. Larissa Avilés-Santa, Kari E. North, Donna K. Arnett, Adam Szpiro, Jianwen Cai, Bing Yu, Eric Boerwinkle, George Papanicolaou, Cathy C. Laurie, Jerome I. Rotter, and Adrienne M. Stilp
Alcohol Sale Status and Homicide Victimization in Kentucky, 2005-2012: Is There a Spatial Association?, Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel, Sabrina Brown, Steven T. Fleming, and W. Jay Christian
Multi-Ancestry Study of Blood Lipid Levels Identifies Four Loci Interacting with Physical Activity, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Amy R. Bentley, Raymond Noordam, Yun Ju Sung, Karen Schwander, Thomas W. Winkler, Hermina Jakupović, Daniel I. Chasman, Alisa Manning, Ioanna Ntalla, Hugues Aschard, Michael R. Brown, Lisa de las Fuentes, Nora Franceschini, Xiuqing Guo, Dina Vojinovic, Stella Aslibekyan, Mary F. Feitosa, Minjung Kho, Solomon K. Musani, Melissa Richard, Heming Wang, Zhe Wang, Traci M. Bartz, Lawrence F. Bielak, Archie Campbell, Rajkumar Dorajoo, Virginia Fisher, Fernando P. Hartwig, Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto, and Donna K. Arnett
An Integrative Cross-Omics Analysis of DNA Methylation Sites of Glucose and Insulin Homeostasis, Jun Liu, Elena Carnero-Montoro, Jenny van Dongen, Samantha Lent, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Symen Ligthart, Pei-Chien Tsai, Tiphaine C. Martin, Pooja R. Mandaviya, Rick Jansen, Marjolein J. Peters, Liesbeth Duijts, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Henning Tiemeier, Janine F. Felix, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco J. C. de Geus, Audrey Y. Chu, Daniel Levy, Shih-Jen Hwang, Jan Bressler, Rahul Gondalia, Elias L. Salfati, Christian Herder, Bertha A. Hidalgo, Toshiko Tanaka, Ann Zenobia Moore, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Min A. Jhun, Jennifer A. Smith, and Donna K. Arnett
INtervention for Cognitive Reserve Enhancement in Delaying the Onset of Alzheimer's Symptomatic Expression (INCREASE), a Randomized Controlled Trial: Rationale, Study Design, and Protocol, Daniela C. Moga, Brooke F. Beech, Erin L. Abner, Frederick A. Schmitt, Riham H. El Khouli, Ashley I. Martinez, Lynne Eckmann, Mark Huffmyer, Rosmy George, and Gregory A. Jicha
Multi-Ancestry Sleep-by-SNP Interaction Analysis in 126,926 Individuals Reveals Lipid Loci Stratified by Sleep Duration, Raymond Noordam, Maxime M. Bos, Heming Wang, Thomas W. Winkler, Amy R. Bentley, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Paul S. de Vries, Yun Ju Sung, Karen Schwander, Brian E. Cade, Alisa Manning, Hugues Aschard, Michael R. Brown, Han Chen, Nora Franceschini, Solomon K. Musani, Melissa Richard, Dina Vojinovic, Stella Aslibekyan, Traci M. Bartz, and Donna K. Arnett
Patterns and Predictors of Chronic Opioid Use in Older Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study, GYeon Oh, Erin L. Abner, David W. Fardo, Patricia R. Freeman, and Daniela C. Moga
Delivering health knowledge and wisdom from the hills and hollows of Appalachia, F. Douglas Scutchfield MD, Erin N. Haynes, Robert M. Shapiro II, and Charlotte S. Seidman
A Case-Control Study of Trace-Element Status and Lung Cancer in Appalachian Kentucky, Jason M. Unrine, Stacey A. Slone, Wayne T. Sanderson, Nancy E. Johnson, Eric B. Durbin, Shristi Shrestha, Ellen J. Hahn, Fran Feltner, Bin Huang, W. Jay Christian, Isabel Mellon, David K. Orren, and Susanne M. Arnold
Enhancing Timeliness of Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance: A Machine Learning Approach, Patrick J. Ward, Peter J. Rock, Svetla Slavova, April M. Young, Terry L. Bunn, and Ramakanth Kavuluru
Caloric Restriction Alters Postprandial Responses of Essential Brain Metabolites in Young Adult Mice, Lucille M. Yanckello, Lyndsay E. A. Young, Jared D. Hoffman, Robert P. Mohney, Mignon A. Keaton, Erin L. Abner, and Ai-Ling Lin
